Prepaid Telecommunications Fraud - Techniques And Detection
- Topics:
- Telecom Services
- Source:
- Fair Isaac
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Overview: Telecommunications fraud costs carriers billions of revenue dollars annually. With the introduction of 2G, 2.5G, and 3G technologies, many people in the telecom carrier community believe that their future potential fraud will be substantially mitigated. Unfortunately that belief is far from reality. Although many forms of technical fraud are becoming less feasible and cost effective for the fraud criminal element, there are many other areas in which the carriers are exposed to fraud. Criminals are continually focused on developing new techniques and methods in order to perpetrate fraud. The telecom fraud criminal is often ingenious and is typically motivated by money, anonymity, or both. Through use of the Internet, the fraud community is becoming more. The focus of this paper is on fraud perpetrated around prepaid services.
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Format: PDF | Size: 162KB | Date: Jun 2003 | Pages: 8
